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William Bear posted:Members of Congress make $174,000 a year. Greene's mask debt of $90,000 represents over half her salary. I bet your they let her use campaign funds to pay it, and I bet she's pulled in way more in campaign funds from advertising the fines than she's had to pay.
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Ham Equity posted:I bet your they let her use campaign funds to pay it, and I bet she's pulled in way more in campaign funds from advertising the fines than she's had to pay. They just withold it from their congressional salary. Congress doesn't actually have a way to compel members to pay except by withholding their salary. Technically, they won't be able to fine her anymore once she hits $174k in fines.
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Jan 21, 2022 01:37
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:They just withold it from their congressional salary. Congress doesn't actually have a way to compel members to pay except by withholding their salary. Technically, they won't be able to fine her anymore once she hits $174k in fines. Liberals hate this one weird trick!
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Jan 21, 2022 03:23
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Strong Sauce posted:wasn't there some viral clip of some british town hall meeting and someone brought up what the average worker makes and no one could believe it? I recall there was that thing during the election when the Labour runner at a town hall thing was talking about why they were aiming for the 80k range or something for adjusting tax rates and some chud welder was whining about how that would affect him, a "working class" person that was making over 80k and that meant the Labour Party was punishing their base.
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Jan 21, 2022 04:23
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"I'm a lifelong working class Labour voter and their tax rises on people making £100k a year would impact me" is a grand newspaper headline that pops up very often in the run up to UK elections these days. The prime one in 2019 was a story about a man who'd voted Labour every election his whole life and how he'd never have been able to get his artisanal pizza restaurant business started under that evil Jeremy Corbyn's tax plans. Then people looked him up and naturally he was a Tory donor and personal friend of the journalist who wrote the story.
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Motronic posted:So what's the conclusion here? Surely you didn't just read two research papers which I also have no intention of reading. So tell me what the takeaway from your post should be. The second paper is pretty old and well-known, the first one is new to me but short. Takeaway is that everybody thinks income should be much more equal than it is, regardless of socioeconomic status. The poorer folks tend to want it to be a little more equal than the wealthier folks but everybody's ideal income distribution is way, way lower than actual. Oh, and no group of people are actually close to estimating the actual income distribution between CEO of national corporation and unskilled laborer, most egregiously in the US (what do you think it is?) (351:1)
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Jan 21, 2022 05:31
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Aces High posted:I recall there was that thing during the election when the Labour runner at a town hall thing was talking about why they were aiming for the 80k range or something for adjusting tax rates and some chud welder was whining about how that would affect him, a "working class" person that was making over 80k and that meant the Labour Party was punishing their base. holy poo poo. thank you for taking my mess of words and figuring out what it was. i vaguely remember watching this but totally forgot what it was about... does anyone have a link to this?
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Jan 21, 2022 07:03
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totalnewbie posted:Oh, and no group of people are actually close to estimating the actual income distribution between CEO of national corporation and unskilled laborer, most egregiously in the US (what do you think it is?) (351:1) The average person guessed a CEO makes only 10x more than "unskilled" labor (according to the paper)? If we generously assume the unskilled laborers are making $20/hr (~$40k/yr), that would mean CEOs only make $400k? I guessed 100x before looking at the number and was still pretty far off.
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Jan 21, 2022 07:13
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Strong Sauce posted:wasn't there some viral clip of some british town hall meeting and someone brought up what the average worker makes and no one could believe it? You might be referring to a Question Time episode where an audience member refused to accept that his >£80k income put him in the top 5% of earners, or even the top 50% https://youtu.be/n4g6k1a4XYA
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Jan 21, 2022 14:31
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I've never seen the whole clip I only remember it because it was one of the questions for Big Fat Quiz of the Year, and the panel had a good rip on the entire situation of the candidate botching a good attempt to clarify the party stance and this tool not understanding how statistics and percentiles work. Not that it isn't hard to bamboozle and obfuscate things like top earnings
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Jan 21, 2022 16:32
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From the annals of "Surely, nothing could go wrong with this plan and I am just the first genius to ever come up with it."quote:Question: Improperly Notarized Agreement Document quote:
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quote:It's enough money that it is necessary to pursue options to get out of it. quote:Is this from the post you did earlier where you said you signed an agreement with a real estate agent? If you signed it and people know you signed it, it's not going to change the legal effect of entering into an agreement. You can be called to testify that you signed the agreement. It's just going to piss the lawyer off that you reported him. Let's take a look at OP's previous posts... quote:Real Estate Exclusive Right to Sell Contract Signing Question
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Jan 21, 2022 17:00
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:From the annals of "Surely, nothing could go wrong with this plan and I am just the first genius to ever come up with it." I don't quite get what is going on there, but I'm assuming it's something to do with a divorce. Would that be a good guess?
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Jan 21, 2022 17:06
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I think that he's trying to weasel out of a contract with the real estate agent because the contract was improperly notarized somehow? I think he thinks it's improperly notarized because the notary agent didn't ask for his photo ID or whatever? I have no clue.
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Jan 21, 2022 17:09
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He signed a contract with a real estate agent for exclusive sale rights. He wants a different realtor now. Backing out of that contract usually incurs whatever the penalty for breaching the contract is (google says it is usually 3.5% to 5% the value of the house). He wants to hire a lawyer and go to court to argue that he doesn't remember ever signing the document and that the notary can't prove it is him by testifying that when he signed the document the notary didn't take a fingerprint or photo ID. He thinks he has discovered "One foolproof ways to get out of contacts you don't wanna honor. Judges hate it!" by claiming that he doesn't remember signing it, but proving that the notary messed up (which wouldn't matter if he willingly signed the contract) by not taking his ID and the notary can't prove it was him because he was there and remembers the notary didn't take his ID (but has no recollection of why the notary was there or if he signed any documents). Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jan 21, 2022 |
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Jan 21, 2022 17:19
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The BWM part was signing an exclusivity deal with a realtor.
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Space Kablooey posted:I think that he's trying to weasel out of a contract with the real estate agent because the contract was improperly notarized somehow? I think he thinks it's improperly notarized because the notary agent didn't ask for his photo ID or whatever? I have no clue. Yeah My guess is they signed the RE agent contract that gives them the exclusive right to list the property take pictures, give them ideas to close, deal with potential buyers / open houses etc. Then they went with a different realtor instead (maybe lower fees or something) and they got sued for the lost commission (usually like 4% of the value of the sale goes to the sellers agent/Firm and 2% goes to the buyers agent/Firm). So if it was a 300k house or something you're looking at friggin 12 grand. OP thinks they can secret word themselves out of the contract "SHOW ME THE BOOK" ,"I wasn't there" until well if it went to court the attorneys would ask "Did you sign this document".. then they'd ask the Notary / attorney, anyone else who was there (maybe the RE agent themselves) "Did this person sign the document?". Guess who's gunna win. tater_salad fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jan 21, 2022 |
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I'm curious about the bit where he signed it but the wife didn't and presumably the couple jointly own the home. The former real estate lawyer in me is curious whether the contract was valid in the first place but it could easily cost thousands of dollars in attorney fees to prove it wasn't.
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Soylent Pudding posted:I'm curious about the bit where he signed it but the wife didn't and presumably the couple jointly own the home. The former real estate lawyer in me is curious whether the contract was valid in the first place but it could easily cost thousands of dollars in attorney fees to prove it wasn't. what if wife wasn't on deed? they could be the "sellers" but if wife wasn't on deed then wouldn't guy be the prime seller. edit: either way this guy bmaboozeled himself into shelling out a pile of money, by signing a contract he wasn't committed to. tater_salad fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Jan 21, 2022 |
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Dan Olson just released a 2h documentary about crypto. Spoiler: he does not like them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
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MisterMarmite posted:You might be referring to a Question Time episode where an audience member refused to accept that his >£80k income put him in the top 5% of earners, or even the top 50% Thanks. This was it. Here is a slightly longer one (from the Mirror unfort) https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/mans-bizarre-question-time-rant-20934080
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tater_salad posted:what if wife wasn't on deed? they could be the "sellers" but if wife wasn't on deed then wouldn't guy be the prime seller. Yeah there's a lot that depends on specific facts and north carolina law that I'm weirdly interested in but the guy is a moron. I ran into a lot of folks like him when I was practicing, "nigh on a thousand years of English common law resolving property disputes is no match for me, a dipshit who can barely google! There is no way my clever scheme to get around the law has ever been though of before and everyone will be helpless after I take them by surprise."
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It probably won’t matter in his case, but it is kinda weird if the notary didn’t ask for ID and didn’t have a logbook.
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lifg posted:It probably won’t matter in his case, but it is kinda weird if the notary didn’t ask for ID and didn’t have a logbook. I just had to sign a will and got it e-notorized because of Covid. I never spoke to, saw, or presented anything to the notary. Not really sure what the point was.
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lifg posted:It probably won’t matter in his case, but it is kinda weird if the notary didn’t ask for ID and didn’t have a logbook. That's the part he actually doesn't remember. I'd bet the notary did their usual routine and dude thinks he can just say they didn't.
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https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1484506629613789184?t=IH3-IG1T26SOj_cQLPPXWQ&s=19 Please please please be true.
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It's down to where it was in August. It's just this month's mass selloff, though it's not recovering nearly as much as it used to. Price has nearly halved in the last 3 months.
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njsykora posted:It's down to where it was in August. It's just this month's mass selloff, though it's not recovering nearly as much as it used to. Price has nearly halved in the last 3 months. A big part of it is expectations of rising interest rates and people not desperate for something - loving anything - to stick money in to earn a return. You're also seeing the same thing with some of the stocks that got red hot during the initial year of covid quarantines. Peloton is getting RAVAGED right now, for example. edit: Also both Russia and India are talking about banning crypto. edit 2: and apparently the Fed, SEC, and the other various American offices with fingers in the economic pie are making increasingly serious noises about doing financial poo poo to make crypto less appealing as a tax dodge etc.
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Cyrano4747 posted:A big part of it is expectations of rising interest rates and people not desperate for something - loving anything - to stick money in to earn a return. that is partially because peloton was literally eating babies and puppies though
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evilweasel posted:that is partially because peloton was literally eating babies and puppies though Don't forget killing Mr. Big. edit: not even a joke, that dumb Sex in the City reboot actually hurt their stock prices. Then they get the actor to do a bunch of ads for them to lightheartedly roll with the punches and recast that a bit and lol he gets a bunch of sexual assault allegations right after they start running them.
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netflix dropped like a brick if you want to follow bitcoin's price this one's the easiest: https://bitcointicker.co/stamp/btc/usd/12hr/ there's a huge selloff wall at 30K if i'm reading the secondary chart right
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Duckman2008 posted:https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1484506629613789184?t=IH3-IG1T26SOj_cQLPPXWQ&s=19 My absolute favorite thing about this is I find about it via Escape from Tarkov because for some ridiculous reason the "Physical Bitcoin" item in the game has its ingame value tied to the live value of bitcoin, so selling those items just gets you less. "Oh, I'm getting less, bitcoin must be down"
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https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1484619425328381955quote:Bitcoin was supposed to be the solution to BIG MONEY. Now it instantly dips everytime when the stock market dips. quote:I'm fairly new in the crypto world, bought most of my portfolio at the ATH of November and I'm now stuck with an ever shrinking crypto account. I'm also new to investment in general, so when I learned about bull and bear markets last year, I thought I understood what they meant. Bull is when people are hopeful and numbers go up. Bear is when people are fearful and numbers go down. But people here keep saying we are not in a bear market. When the market goes down everyday for months, what is it then? quote:With Bitcoin right at the $40k mark, this will be the last time in the foreseeable future you’ll be able to buy it this high a price. It’s time to go all-in and prove that you truly have diamond hands. quote:
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Didn't Zaurg buy a bunch of buttcoin? lol
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you'll laugh when you see this dip from your private jet.. Okay
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You love to see it!quote:Bull is when people are hopeful and numbers go up. Bear is when people are fearful and numbers go down. also lol
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I have never bought any cryptocurrency and I expect that I never will. But as much as I hate cryptomaniacs and their weird religion, you have to admit, bitcoin really has crashed a lot of times and then went on to reach a new high every time so far. If we ignore things like stock markets as a whole or entire economies (which tend to have regular boom-and-bust cycles), what other 'asset' or investment bubble has behaved so erratically in such a short period of time? Like, the Dutch went crazy over tulips, but they did it once and then they were done. They moved on to some other nonsense. The crypto nightmare should have ended a decade ago but it hasn't.
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Verus posted:I have never bought any cryptocurrency and I expect that I never will. But as much as I hate cryptomaniacs and their weird religion, you have to admit, bitcoin really has crashed a lot of times and then went on to reach a new high every time so far. Railroad stock was the 19th century version of high risk/high reward meme stocks. LOTS of small RR's raised capital and then went tits up before having whatever track and other assets they had get acquired by some other nearby company. Rinse and repeat until poo poo consolidated down to a few major regional companies.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Railroad stock was the 19th century version of high risk/high reward meme stocks. LOTS of small RR's raised capital and then went tits up before having whatever track and other assets they had get acquired by some other nearby company. Rinse and repeat until poo poo consolidated down to a few major regional companies. They invested heavily in NFTs (Non-Functional Trains)
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Cyrano4747 posted:Railroad stock was the 19th century version of high risk/high reward meme stocks. LOTS of small RR's raised capital and then went tits up before having whatever track and other assets they had get acquired by some other nearby company. Rinse and repeat until poo poo consolidated down to a few major regional companies. Weren't the early commercial airline days similar?
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